Abstract

Let us consider an arbitrary semantical relation. It holds between some linguistic entities and pieces of reality referred to. We may call it meaning. The controversy between psychologism and antipsychologism therefore may be exhibited as an ontological dilemma:Antipsychologism PsychologismThe relation of meaning is independent of human beings The relation of meaning is established by human beingsWhen we describe the meaning of words we do not need to refer to human behavior When we describe the meaning of words we need to refer to human behaviorIt seems to be safe to assume that reality is not contradictory and a good description of reality cannot lead to the contradiction. All presentations of semantical antinomies rest on antipsychologistic description of semantical relations. Thus we can blame the contradictions called semantical antinomies on the antipsychologistic description